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Bird flu could become the next human pandemic – and politicians aren’t paying attention

Rebecca Katz, professor at Georgetown University Medical Center, has noted that a H5 candidate vaccine virus recently produced by the US Centers for Disease Control and…

May 16, 2023

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HBCUs Partner With Georgetown to Turn Environmental Data into Solutions

The Environmental Impact Data Collaborative created an interactive platform that hosts more than 145 datasets alongside digital tools that make it faster and easier to combine…

May 15, 2023

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Can controversial zoning changes tackle affordable housing issues?

Arlington, Virginia, will now allow the construction of Missing Middle Housing where only single-family homes could once be.…

May 12, 2023

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Songbirds, dusk and clear skies: Scientists explore migratory flights

A pair of studies suggests the birds rely on the onset of dusk and the suggestion of fair skies ahead as signs for taking.…

May 6, 2023

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These vibrant sea creatures are thriving in the great pacific garbage patch

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t an impassable, solid mass in the middle of the ocean, but rather a lively, swirling soup of discarded trash and microplastics that churn…

May 5, 2023

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A surprising number of drifting sea creatures found living in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

With neustons so plentiful in the Sargasso, the scientists wondered if there might also be a neuston presence in an ocean region shaped by similar surface current activity: the…

May 5, 2023

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The Harmful Side Effect of Cleaning Up the Ocean

Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying a marine.…

May 5, 2023

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Giant Garbage Patch in the North Pacific is home to an abundance of life

While the plastic waste in this region is well-documented, little is known about the floating ocean creatures inhabiting the area, such as jellyfish (cnidarians), snails,…

May 4, 2023

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Most Ocean Plastic Flows From Rivers. Can Giant Trash Barriers Stop It? | World Wide Waste

The Ocean Cleanup started removing plastic from the ocean a decade ago. But most of that plastic comes from rivers, so it started building solar-powered river cleaners to catch…

May 1, 2023

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China Watcher: Secret police — Fentanyl frustration — Photon Media

Joanna Lewis is director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and an expert on…

April 20, 2023